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children. a crash so severe, so explosive, all that's left, burned wreckage. >> diane schuler had a blood alcohol content of .19%. diane schuler had approximately six grams of alcohol in her stomach. alcohol that had yet to be metabolized. diane schuler had a high level of thc in her blood. thc is the active ingredient pertaining to marijuana. >> i go to bed every night knowing, my heart is clear, she did not drink. she is not an alcoholic. >> because we have never known diane to be anything but a responsible and caring mother and aunt, this toxicology report raises more questions than it provides answers for our family. >> i cannot believe that this manifested itself just on this one incident, and never before did she imbibe liquor in any quantity, never before used drugs. we intend to pursue every civil remedy. i believe there's a strong fragrance of criminality. i want to find out what did the husband, the brother, other people know. >> and tonight, a florida beach beauty marries her dream man and the newlyweds all set to live happily ever after until death does them part. what the 26-

drunk and act in -- >> i never saw her drunk since the day i met her. >> a 36-year-old mother, diane shuler, drove the wrong way for nearly two miles on a new york highway with five children inside her minivan. they struck an suv with three adults head-on. eight people were killed. authorities revealed schuler had a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit. equivalent to ten drinks. that she also had traces of marijuana in her system. >> how do you put five children in a car when you are a mother and you're drunk? how do you do that? it's incomprehensible. i can't even -- we have children. i would never, ever do something like that. it's just -- it's crazy. >> i go to bed every night knowing, my heart is clear, she did not drink. she is not an alcoholic. listen to all that. she is not an alcoholic, and my heart is restless every night when i go to bed. something medically had to have happened. >> good evening. i'm nancy grace. i want to thank you for being with us. a florida beach beauty marries her dream man and the newlyweds all set to live happily ever after till death

. the toxicology and autopsy shows diane schuler had a blood alcohol content of.19%. >> i go to bed every night knowing, my heart is clear. she did not drink. she is not an alcoholic. >> in addition, the autopsy revealed that diane schuler had approximately six grams of alcohol in her stomach. alcohol that had yet to be metabolized. >> i'm not saying that test is wrong here, but something had to happen. this is not a woman who would jeopardize five children. >> toxicology also reveals that diane schuler had a high level of thc. in her blood. thc is the active ingredient contained in marijuana. >> something happened to her brain. that doesn't give me an answer. does not give me an answer to the alcohol in her stomach. or the marijuana allegedly there. >> in conjunction with the collision reconstruction and its detailed examination of the schulers' van, investigators uncovered a broken, 1.75 liter bottle of vodka. >> she is not an alcoholic. >> if you believe the circumstances the way they are now described, you have to believe that a woman with five children in the car is smoking pot and drinkin

time. >>> plus, heart to heart. diane sawyer joins dr. mehmet oz in the operating room for a revealing interview with oprah's number one doctor. >>> and man fur. there was a time not long ago when bald was beautiful, but not now. why manscaping is out this summer and chestst h hair is bai withth a vengece. cacaptnsfor by abc, , inc. i'i'm m teterry moran. r fit t ti tonight, wewe havav led d atat i investigators believeve are thfacts about t h last hhours, ug follllowowing d follining drug. manany drugugs that jacacoon's t cod d no longeger r tataket. inan attempt get michaeae n to p he wasas given enen sedatitives to kiki him. von fremd reports. >> today court documents, seeking to raid the home office of jackson's personal physician, dr. conrad murray, were released. after weeks of leaks and speculation, for the first time we know the details of what police and the coroner believe happened in those fateful last 24 hours of jackson's life. a police affidavit says dr. conrad murray told los angeles detectives he had been treating jackson for six weeks for insomnia, giving him 50 mi

. >> diane schuler had a blood alcohol content of .19%. diane schuler had approximately six grams of alcohol in her stomach, alcohol yet ma tab liesed. toxicology reveals diane schuler had a high level of thc in her blood. thc the active ingredient contained in marijuana. >> i go to bed every night knowing my heart is clear. she did not drink. she was not an alcoholic. >> because we have never known diane to be anything but a responsible and caring mother and aunt, this toxicology report raises more questions than it provides answers for our family. >> i cannot believe that. this current manifested itself all of a sudden on this one sunday and never before did she imbibe liquor, in any quantity, never before did she use drugs. we intend to pursue any civil. i believe is a strong fragrance of criminality. i want to find out what did the husband, brother and other people know. >> and tonight a florida beach beauty, marries her dream man, and the newlyweds all set to live hap he ever after until death does them part. but the 26-year-old beauty didn't plan on was the hit man she hires to murder

morning to you. diane sawyer with chris cuomo, on this august 26th, 2009. robin is on assignment. we're joined by george stephanopoulos and dr. tim johnson and the abc news team. you're looking live at hyannisport, massachusetts, right now. and the home where senator kennedy died, looking out at the ocean he loved. >> the sun coming up. and this is where senator kennedy felt most alive. his lifetime spent battling. his last one, a year and three months. that's how long he fought brain canser. he died shortly before midnight. 77 years old. important to know the final moments of his life, he very much was intent on the cause of health care. something that was so central to his politics. >> whatever it took for him to be there, he was. the family released a poignant statement overnight saying, we've lost the irreplaceable center of ou family and the joyous light in our lives. he always believed that our best days were still ahead. but it's hard to imagine any of them without him. let's turn, now, to chief washington correspondent, george stephanopoulos, who got word shortly after he die

of the permanent portfolio funds with more than $4 billion in funds, and diane swonk who is chief economist at mesirow capital. diane, what the fed said is that financial conditions are leveling out and further financial conditions are improving further. do you agree? >> i agree. they are leveling out and they certainly didn't say they were soaring ahead, did they? >> no. >> well, saying we are seeing some cross currents in the economy, and good news and bad news. the armageddon scenario is behind us, but we are moving into an economic recovery, but it's very fragile and will be a rocky recovery at best. so the fed left the door open, the backdoor open to continue its quantitative easing, if necessary, and expand the balance sheet, although i it would like as we continue into move into 2010 to reduce the balance sheet and not raise the rates for quite a while, but certainly accommodate it. >> well, what about it, mike? i think that at some point there needs to ban exit strategy, they will need to do that and the fed will need to raise the rates. when does that start? >> yeah, i agree. they

solutions to the test. captions paid for by abc, inc. >>> and good morning, america. i'm diane sawyer, here with david muir this morning. robin is away. chris is away this friday, august 21st, 2009. and there's a tsunami of outrage, pours over great britain this morning. >> all of the pictures pouring in. a hero's welcome for the bomber of the lockerbie pan am flight. all there to cheer him an as he arrives home. >> the still grieving families cannot believe this is happening. we want to know why. let's go to nick watt in london this morning. nick? >> reporter: good morning, diane. well, the families of those killed are asking, how can this man who was convicted of 270 counts of murder deserve to be shown any compassion? last night, megrahi touched down back in libya. this is what relatives of the dead did not want to see. megrahi returning home to a hero's welcome. [ screaming ] >> my baby. >> reporter: 20 years ago, families of the dead grieved. today, they are angry. >> he was convicted of mass murder. a convicted terrorist. >> reporter: susan cohen's daughter, was on pan am 103. >> it w

for by abc, inc. >>> and good morning, america. robin is on assignment this morning. i'm diane sawyer on this thursday, august 6, 2009. and chris is back from anchoring our coverage of the shooting of all those women in the fitness class near pittsburgh. this morning, take a look. we have new video of the killer speaking. we're going to be searching for clues inside it, that might show how an ordinary neighbor or co-worker becomes increasingly deranged. >> we also found a second video. you're looking at one. this is sodini giving a tour of his own house. as you'll see, there's some remarkable things we find on this video. if you look closely, that book, is called "how to date young women for men over 35. "and something else new we found this morning. by analyzing, literally, computer code involved in s blog, a hidden message, that he had written about men. >> embedded in the computer. >> embedded in the code of his computer. >> and, of course, we do not forget the women who were in that room. we're going to tell you some of their stories. including the pregnant instructor, who said sh

that long island mother diane schuler was stoned and drunk when she plowed into the suv going the wrong way on the taconic parkway. schuler herself was killed along with her 2-year-old daughter and three nieces. >> i think anyone that knows and contributed to this should be brought to justice in one way or another. >> reporter: the family lawyer calling now for a full investigation saying he senses what he calls a fragrance of criminality. >> it's inconceivable to me that the family would be unaware of the fact that this woman drank a lot and used marijuana. >> she is not an alcoholic, and my heart is rested every night when i go to bed. something medically had to have happened. >> something happened to her brain. that doesn't give me an answer. does not give me an answer for the alcohol in her stomach or the marijuana allegedly there, and i'm not saying that test is wrong here. something had to happen. this is not a woman who would jeopardize five children. she was the one they chose to always drive. >> the fragrance of criminality? more like the odor of criminality, the stench, the pungen

for by abc, inc. >>> and good morningamerica. i'm diane sawyer with chris cuomo. robin is on assignment on this friday, august 28th, 2009. we have the fires out in the west. and the big storm bearing in on the east. >> we have the latest from both coasts. let's begin with sam champion. he's out on the end of long island, new york, where residents are watching out for danny. good morning, sam. >> good morning, chris. good morning, diane. this is the latest on tropical storm danny. it looks like we'll keep it a tropical storm. it's about 400 miles off the coast of cape hatteras. about 800 miles off where we're standing right now. and the waves on the eastern seaboard, are a little higher than normal. but we expect big waves as danny makes its way along the coastline over the next three days. with powerful waves from florida to the carolinas, storm danny will churn up the rest of the east coast. these nas dafoe toes show an how making a prediction on danny's exact path difficult. >> we have 10-foot to 12-foot seas. >> reporter: 11 states are watching danny's progress closely. but tropical

and pot. but tonight authorities hone in on daddy. >> the nightmare began with 36-year-old diane schuler with five kids in her minivan, mistakenly turned on to the taconic parkway's exit ramp. >> schuyler was apparently disoriented when she drove onto the ta conic parkway. >> the minivan continued in the wrong direction on the parkway for 1.7 miles before it hit this suv, carrying three men who were killed on impact. the minivan with the kids then careened into a third car, rolled down this embankment and burst into flames. >> toxicology reports found schuler was twice over the legal alcohol limit and showed evidence of marijuana use. >> it's difficult for me to believe that nobody knew the propensity of this woman to drink and have drugs. i think it's extremely unusual, extremely suspicious. i think that the family should have immediately notified the state police to stop that vehicle. they knew the license plate. and not let her proceed. yet they let her proceed. >> the question's asked, did she have an alcohol problem, did you know her to go to bars? >> absolutely not. >> did you know

'm diane sawyer in times square. robin is on assignment on this thursday, august 27th. and chris cuomo is anchoring our coverage from hyannisport, massachusetts. chris, good morning. any signs the family is stirring this morning? >> good morning, diane. i don't think i've ever been able to say this before, but the kennedy compound is quiet. and talking to family members, from youngest to oldest yesterday, they all remember teddy the same way. he was there for them always. and now, they are make sure they are there for him. the family is literally, taking shifts, holding vigil, over teddy's body, making sure the man who they love is never alone. even in the final moments, he showed his strength. >> there was a certain peace there that was absolutely beautiful. >> reporter: now, loved ones are gathering at the family compound to mourn and celebrate. >> that's what we're going to do in the next few days. celebrate his life, a wonderful life. >> reporter: a family who played in the surf where their uncle teddy loved. here is where the senator was most at home, here at the family compound.

morning, america. i'm diane sawyer, with chris cuomo. robin is on assignment, on this august 4th, 2009. and everyone has been thinking all along, who could sweep into north korea? who could gain the american journalists? >> the answer is presidentill clinton. he landed in the capital today. >> it's an extraordinary mission, as you say, because of the high level of it. and everybody wondering, since they have been there for five months, we know the sentence was 12 years of hard labor. will it work? let's go straight to martha raddatz and see what she has learned. martha? >> reporter: good morning, diane. the one thing that is clear here is bill clinton would not have gone to north korea unless he was certain he would be coming back with the two journalists. former president clinton arrived in north korea early tuesday, in an unmarked aircraft, met warmly by north korean officials, and a young girl bearing flowers. this trip has been in the works for week abc news was told the north koreans had two demands. an apology from the u.s. and a high-profile emissary to come to north korea. the

to the show. captions paid for by abc, inc. >>> and good morning, america. diane sawyer, with robin back, on this august 5th, 2009. >> abc news has confirmed who the shooter was. 48at man right ea 48-year-old, george sezini. walked into an l.a. fittsness center, outside of pittsburgh. opened fire on an aerobics class, of 30 to 40 women. >> we're going to show you a lot more of the strange blog that he wrote. said he'd been planning the shooting for more than a year. but wanted to see the results of the presidential election. chris cuomo is there, outside pittsburgh. and he has the latest. good morning, chris. >> we also have our other breaking story we want to talk about, first. we want to show you live pictures from burbank, california, this morning, where a plane carrying the american journalists and former president bill clinton will land late their morning. >> that's right. euna lee and laura ling arriving home, after spending nearly five months in their north korean prison. what happened behind the scenes? we'll bring you that in a moment. >>> right now, let's get to chris outside t

. captions paid for by abc, inc. >>> and good morning, america. welcome to this new week. i'm diane sawyer with robin roberts on monday, august 3rd, 2009. what could it have been like aboard that plane with that turbulence? still getting news in. >> we know it was a continental flight on its way to houston, texas, from rio de janeiro, a boeing 767, diverted to miami after dozens of people were injured because of violent turbulence. abc aviation expert lisa stark has the latest for us. >> reporter: good morning, robin. well, it was a boeing 767 as you say. it was a continental flight 128. that's a wide-bodied jet. we're told that there were 168 people on board. that's passenger and crew. they were on their way from rio de janeiro to houston where they hit turbulence. they were climbing to 38,000 feet. we're told they hit rough air, apparently very severe turbulence. they were about 50 miles north of the dominican republic at that time and the pilot decided to declare an emergency. it was that bad and to put down in miami where continental doesn't even really fly to miami. they decided to pu

. captions paid for by abc, inc. 14 and good morning to all of you. diane sawyer with chris cuomo, on this wednesday august 19th, 2009. robin is away. what a storm that was. >> it's a terrible tornado. what makes it worst it was not expected. it ripped through a crowded retail district in beaumont, texas. >> winds topping 110 miles per hour. leaving a trail of destruction half a mile long. >> several people are injured. could have been a lot worse because the roof literally caved in at a department store. you're looking at the aftermath, as this tornado went through this town. ryan owens is on the ground and taking a look at how this happened and the cleanup going on. >> reporter: good morning, diane and chris. this is an example of some of the damage. this is where you would return your cart in the shopping lot of the walmart. here in hurricane season. everyone in this part of the world, has their eyes on the atlantic ocean. the gulf of mexico. when suddenly, that twister stops by the mall. >> there it is. there's the tail right there. >> reporter: one resident caught the tornado

to meet with police. will criminal charges follow? >> long island mother diane schuler was stoned and drunk when she plowed into the bastardis' suv, going the wrong way on the taconic parkway. schuler herself was killed along with her 2-year-old daughter and three nieces. >> she left the campground in new york and went to mcdonald's. according to the employees at mcdonald's, she seemed fine, no problem, the kids seemed fine. she supposedly got back in her minivan and started driving. >> she did not drink. she is not an alcoholic. >> i feel that it is inconceivable that nobody in this -- in the deceased driver's family was aware of the fact that she had a drinking problem or a drug problem. >> the new york state police have told me that when they interviewed daniel schuler about his wife's medical conditions, they also asked him, did she do drugs recreationally, did she drink at all, and what he told them, according to what they told me later, was that she was a social drinker and that she occasionally smoked pot. >> did you know her to go to bars? >> absolutely not. >> did you kno

. >> it was the car crash that gripped the nation and devastated three families. three weeks ago, diane schuler drove the wrong way down a new york state highway, killing herself and her nieces and nephews and three others in a car. but what makes the circumstances surrounding the crash so bizarre is that schuler had marijuana and the equivalent of ten drinks in her system, a finding that her husband daniel won't accept. >> i go to bed every night knowing my mind is clear. she not an alcoholic. >> and now those affected by the crash wanted to know if schuler was hiding an addiction, if anyone who knew about it could have stopped her. >> how could other people not know? and these are all questions that my family want to know. want to know the truth. >> but schuler is described by friends and family as a typical suburban mom, a devoted parent with no drinking problem. it's raised the question -- did she have more in common with big stars like michael jackson than anyone could have imagined? ♪ jackson was poised to make a big comeback with 50 sold out performances and doctors gave him a clean bill of

-year-old diane schuler, was drunk, and high on marijuana at the time. but her husband came forward on thursday with tears in his eyes, insisting he had never seen his wife drunk. more of what he had to say in just a moment. plus, his sister-in-law will join us for a live interview. >> also ahead here this half hour, michael jackson's brother jermaine speaks out about the investigation into his brother's death, and how jackson's three children are doing. we're going to hear from him, and tell you where the family is considering moving a part of jackson's neverland ranch. >>> and a programming note. monday on "today" a live exclusive interview with kate gosselin. her first since announcing her split with jon. that is kate gosselin live, monday, only on "today." >>> but we are going to begin with the widow of the woman who drove the wrong way on a new york highway, causing a crash that killed eight people, including four children. nbc's rehema ellis has the latest. good morning, rehema. >> reporter: good morning, meredith. daniel schuler spoke out for the first time on thursday. and r

-year-old diane schuler driving her 2-year-old daughter, her 5-year-old son and three young nieces home from a summer weekend family outing. >> she was fine. we packed the cars up. like we always do. >> reporter: four hours later she hit and killed three men in a second vehicle, on a highway about 35 miles north of new york city. only schuler's 5-year-old son survived. days later, hundreds of neighbors, friends, and family members held a funeral service. husband mourning daughter and wife. schuler's brother and wife, saying good-bye to their three children. >> cherish your children. cherish your children. >> reporter: police investigators and family struggle to understand how this tragedy could have happened. at around 1:00 p.m. police say schuler called her brother, saying she felt disoriented but she continued driving. eyewitnesses later told police diane schuler drove erraticay for the next 60 miles before coming here. and in broad daylight with the minivan filled with children she entered this road, that is clearly marked one way, do not enter. schuler drove the wrong way, weaving t

benefits three times during this recession. for a closer look at today's numbers, we turn to: diane swonk, chief economist at mesirow financial, a diversified financial services firm in chicago; and jim ellis, assistant managing editor at "business week" magazine. diane swonk, companies are still shedding jobs but not as quickly. so, relatively speaking, better than expected, right? >> certainly better than expected. we also saw an increase in the hours worked which is one of those big precursors to hiring. firms are much more likely to take the employees they have and work them longer hours before they actually make that commitment to actually hiring workers. the other good news in the data was an increase in wages. that was really reflective in part on the higher men mum wage and a bounceback from some of the weakest wage numbers we've seen in the post world war 2 period. >> so jim ellis when you look at particular industries or sectors, where were the losses this time? does anything jump out to you as looking better this time around? >> there's nothing that really looks radically bette

. up 100%. joining us now on a cnbc exclusive, diane irvine, blue nile's president and ceo. first of all, a lot of questions. year over year decline in sales is only 5%. i was surprised given the fact that you sell expensive jewelry online. seems like people would be buying a lot less jewelry right now. how did you stay profitable? what are consumers doing? >> i think our proposition is one where in normal times we're 20% to 40% less than a typical jewelry store in terms of our pricing. we're selling a very high quality product. diamond prices are at levels we've last seen three-plus years ago. a great time to buy a diamond, and consumers are finding incredible prices at blue nile. our model is one that really speaks to consumer ins an environment like this, when people are looking for value, consumers are much more discerning. when you can go to a place like blue nile and find very high quality products for half the price, let's say, in a typical jewelry store, i think we're just gaining market share significantly at a time when many jewellers are closing their doors. >> diane, w

a subspecialty certificate. diane was very involved in this, in hospice and palliative medicine. medicine. so there now are board-certified specialist in this area, and notches in the primary care arena but in several different surgical specialties, in psychiatry, in neurology, in pediatrics as well. so the fact that there is no kind of a recognized way of saying this person actually has these skills should allow us going forward to be able, and maybe even have, you know, educate consumers, especially family members, ask these kind of questions. you know, do you have a specialist in this area, or do u have expertise in palliative medicine. learn that term, and ask people about it. that will begin to make a difference to. >> well, i appreciate your comment, gail, but i have to say this. someone who is work and the fee-for-service medical sector for over 30 years who has been basically at the mercy of whatever medicare, cms, decides every year what my services are worth, i have to tell you this when you talk about, let's not talk about more money in the system. and i'm not talking about that ei

, ready for the hustle? captions paid for by abc, inc. >>> good morning, america. diane sawyer wh chris cuomo on this tuesday, august 18th. and robin is away. the dow seemed to roll back since monday. >> the market goes up and goes down. what does it mean for the overall economy? there is a clue. not on wall street. but in a place like walmart, where parents are spending less on school supplies. >> for the latest, bianna golodryga, on the floor of the new york stock exchange. a look ahead and what's next. >> reporter: good morning, diane. we know that wall street has been betting on an economic recovery for the past few months. what we found out yesterday, the consumer is not the gambling type. in fact, they're not the spending type. analysts expect this to be the worst back-to-school shopping season in over ten years. the road to a recovery may be much bumpier than previously thought. sluggish back-to-school sales are creating first-day jitters of their own for retailers. sales are down 7.7%. with the average family spending $46 less than last year. >> basically, what we just got here

developments in the taconic parkway crash that killed eight. police say the diver, diane schuler, was drunk and high on ug when is she drove the wrong way for two miles on the parkway. this explains so much of what happened that day. we have two reports tonight. we'll begin with jim dolan at the state police barracks in hawthorne. jim? >> reporter: bill, you remember what they said at the time, right? she was a loving mother, a doting, devoted mother, except here's what we know now -- ripped on liquor and stoned on weed, diane schuler loaded up her car with her own children, with her brother's children and killed nearly all of them. the carnage was numbing but the mangled wreckage jarring was a as it was could not approach relating the horror that emerged from the parkway last week, a grim parade of lives young and old extinguished in a heart beat all, it turns out, because of a liquor fueled drugged mother who took to the road. >> she would have had difficulty with perception, with her judgment, with her memory. around that level of alcohol you also start to get what's called tunnel visio

is a woman or a man? captions paid for by abc, in >>> and good morning, america. diane sawyer, chris cuomo. robin roberts is off on this thursday, august 20th, 2009. and the dangerous weather will not step for the people in the midwest. tornadoes ripping through minnesota, wisconsin, iowa. in a moment, you're going to hear from a brave, young boy, in illinois, who was home alone in his basement, when the drnd blew away his house around him. >> the sounds outside of his home was louder than the music he was listening to. >>> and we're following hurricane bill. 800 miles south of bermuda. it's moved from a category 4 to a category 3. it's expected to get strong again. winds right now are at 120 miles per hour. >> and forecasters expect it to be strengthening overnight. will bill actually hit the eastern seaboard? we'll tell you more. let's begin our complete coverage this morning. breaking weather stories, beginning in the midwest with barbara pinto? >> reporter: good morning, buyian. a powerful tornado took aim at this small town. and you can see the results. house after house in ruins. roo

morning, everyone. alongside chris cuomo, i'm robin roberts. diane is off, on this friday, august 7th. and we continue to learn more about the man who opened fire on an aerobics class earlier this week. >> we have a team of reporters looking into this. insight into him will help going forward. and this is a relationship class. a tough-love tutorial, with him participating. >> this, as the victims' families prepare to say good-bye. the funerals tomorrow for three women killed. >> john berman has been in bridgeville, pennsylvania, since the beginning. he's looking at what happened with the victims and their families. and details about sodini. let's get the latest from him. >> reporter: in addition to the funerals, four women remain hospitalized, including the aerobics instructor here. at the same time, we're getting new insight, into george sodini. and we look to this semi for a dating guru. the tears still flowing. nerves still raw. at a vigil last night for the three women murdered. their lives remembered, as we learn more about the life of their killer, george sodini. >> over here, t

. captions paid for by abc, inc. >>> welcome to a new week. diane sawyer with chris cuomo on this monday, august 24th. robin is off. there were fast-moving developments in the model murder investigation. >> the suspect police believe responsible for jasmine fiore's death is ryan jenkins. you see him pictured there. he was found dead in a motel room apparently a suicide. however, the case not closed. a miss tierous woman may have been helping hip escape. >>> jenkins was found a hundred miles from where he was found to have crossed the border in hope, british columbia, where brian rooney is with the latest. brian? >> reporter: diane, we're up in the mountains of british columbia. an hold motel on the outskirts of town just across from the railroad tracks. >> the deceased person was found in a motel in hope, british columbia, is, in fact, ryan jenkins. >> reporter: it's a motel occupied in part by recovering alcoholics and addicts. jenkins had failed to leave his room by the 11 a.m. checkout so the manager went in. >> i cracked the door, seen the computer sitting on the bed and a few other

. only her son survived. >> we do not have much in the way of people that morning describing diane schuler other than to say that she was fine, up until the time that she made a phone call. >> at 11:30, she talked to her brother, said, you know what, hit a little bit of traffic, but your girls -- who were in the car, three of them -- will be home in time for their afternoon activities. then at 1:00, she talked to her brother again. and this is where everything went into action sort of, here. because the brother said, are you okay? she said, no, you know, i'm feeling sick, things are spinning around. the brother said, look, stay where you are. at the time, she was at a pulloff area near the tapanzee bridge. apparently she didn't stay there. >> diane schuler had a blood alcohol level of 0.19%. diane schuler had a high level of thc in her blood. thc is the active ingredient contained in marijuana. >> she is not an alcoholic and my heart is rested every night when i go to bed. something medically had to have happened. >> it's obvious she had a lot of alcohol in her system. she was ston

dms ettes had talked to them. that's what we did. got to talking to diane and the girls. so we got in the studio and they recorded and they were so perturbed -- i'll put it a nice way -- and while she was singing the song ♪ baby baby ♪ and it was in the wrong key. it was in the key of gladdy -- gladys. but her voice took on a whole new thing. it became sull terrorist she was so mad and so disgusted with having to be forced to sing this song. but it put out such a feeling, a sexy feeling, a style. and she became a starlet that night. and that sound, everybody started adapting it, the key, putting it down. but that attitude was the attitude that the song needed. and -- tavis: and now we all know the words of that song. >> yeah, and shot up through the charts. told two or three million copies. straight to number one. then we had consecutive number ones, 13 in a row with the supremes. tavis: how cool was marvin gay? >> he was great, man, and just don't get on his bad side. oh, he was so good, man. we were personal friends too because we were at ana records before we got to berry's

it all means for a recovering economy is diane swan, chief economist at messer owe financial, and real estate expert herly oel after son, and diana olick joins us, as well. diana, what do you make of today's news? >> i'm sorry. >> i'll take it for a second. first, we did see the unexpected drop in housing starts but that was driven by multifamily which was having all kinds of problems with credit, and unable to get loans for the large buildings. we did see a bump up of 1.7% in single family housing starts so that's an improvement, and we have seen a bump up in january of this year. good news on single family versus multi. diane? >> i agree 100%. that's exactly what is happening. the condo market not getting any funding in the commercial real estate. we saw them being able to fund commercial mortgage-backed securities, extending the programs, talf programs, because commercial has not been funded in a long time and there is nothing in the pipeline. so that's going to remain weak. so starting to see something bumping along on the single family side. a lot of build to suit are starting to

around the country were similarly tense. at a town hall, diane thurber wamsley spoke about the pro-abortion measures. >> americans will be required to have health care that meets minimum standards and obama administration considers abortion an essential service. [applause] it doesn't matter which side of the fence you are about abortion, i'm talking about taxpayer-funded abortion. we have to pay for it. whether we agree with it or not. sean: those two patriotic americans, diane thurber wamsley and craig miller are here with us. thank you for being with us. >> thanks for manage having me. shape craig, you're offsit, let me start with you. that was a tense moment. i think -- by the way, are you part of a mob? you a mob ter? -- mobster? >> no, i'm a born again christian, if you want to call christians a mob, then i'm a mob. but, no, i'm not part of a mob. sean: i saw a lot of passion and a lot of people have been critical. i know you in particular, you have been attacked here, but i guess what i'm trying to get through to my audience, you have real serious health concerns, you are not

for by abc, inc. >>> we say good morning to you. welcome, again. i'm diane sawyer. robin is off on this tuesday, august 25th. after all of the speculation, after all of the talk, we have real information on michael jackson's death. >> one doctor says he took enough sedatives to knock down on elephant. the question, now, of course, will it rise to the level o homicide? abc's mike von fremd is at the los angeles county coroner's office. he has the latest this morning. good morning, mike. >> reporter: good morning, chris. he's documents show that dr. conrad murray admitted that he had been treating michael jackson's insomnia for six weeks. giving him the powerful anesthetic, propofol, where he claims he was attempting to wean jackson off the dangerous drug. police documents give an extraordinary time line of the day michael jackson died. at 1:30 a.m., jackson is unable to sleep. so, dr. murray gives him valium but it does not work. an hour later, murray tries a second anti-anxiety drug, adavan. then, 30 minutes later, another sedative. midazolan. even then, jackson does not sleep.

that ruined so many lives just took another turn. witnesses now tell police diane schueler stopped at mcdonald's and seemed fine. so if she was drinking when did she start? if she was smoking marijuana, when did she light up? hours late, the suburban long island mother drove the wrong way on the parkway, killing her own daughter, three nieces, three men, in other car, and herself. but something had to happen. this is not a woman who would jeopardize five children. >> reporter: but police say the toxicology report doesn't lie and shows her blood level 0.19% twice the legal limb it and high on marijuana. the family attorney says diane may have been disoriented because of medical problems. >> one of them was an abscess which was almost two months old. she had diabetes at various levels. >> reporter: but the crime lab has ruled out a stroke, heart attack or other medical conditions. the family's legal team has a new theory about a bottle of vodka found at the crash scene and they laid it out on "today." >> they were known, because they were not drinkers to carry the same bottle of vodka for

duringhis recession. for a closer look today's numbers,e turn to: diane onk, chief economist at mesiw financial, a diversified financial servicesirm in chicago; and jim ellis, assistant managing edir at "business we" magazine. diane swo, companies are still shedding jobs but not a quickly. so, relatively speakin better than expted, right? >> certainly bettethan expected. we also saw an incrse in the hours worked which is one of thosebig precursors to hiring. firms a much more likely to te the employees they have and wo them lger hou before they tually mak that commitnt to actually hing workers. e other good news in t data was anncrease in wages. that w really reflecve in part on the higher men mum wage and a bounceback from some ofhe weakest wage numbs we've seen in the post world war 2 period. >> sojim ellis when you ok at particular indtries or sectors, where were the losses th time? does anything jumput to you asooking better this time around? there's notng that really looks radically bett. i mean we are happy to see that inthe areashat have continued to go down and have been going

since it all happened. we now welcome londell mcmilon, attorney for katherine jackson and diane goodman, attorney for katherine. she also handles custody issues as well. would you say today was successful for your client? >> i'd say by all accounts today was a significant day and we achieved a great deal. we're happy mrs. jackson now has the permanent custody of her wonderful three children. i want to thank my co-counsel diane goodman and debbie rowe's counsel. he was just terrific and she was great and we handled this without a lot of fanfare, without a lot of back and forth. and it was done with the prudence and care that we always said we would do. at the end of the day, a lot of people have things to say about how lawyers do business. this was the classic case of doing it for the right reason. >> larry: anything you wanted you didn't get? >> no, we got everything we wanted. we wanted to make mrs. jackson the permanent guardian of the children today. that's what we were looking to have happen. >> larry: were the children there? >> no, the children were excused by the judge. >> larry:

we see breaking out in the hill there. >> yeah, good morning, diane. good morning, robin. we are in la crescenta. right behind us is the angeles national forest and you're right, the fire picked up and moved into new brush there. this is the last neighborhood to be evacuated in this area and we're getting word that it will be evacuated later this morning because of those fires that are right on the edge of the hills. 71 square miles burned in this fire right here, as you said, about 11 or 12 fires burning throughout the state of california after a record heat summer and a very dry situation, 7 inches below normal rainfall this is exactly what california residents have feared, that this fire season would start early and start deadly. this fire could take out a lot of radio and tv communications in the l.a. area because as this blaze takes over mt. wilson there, there are dozens of radio and tv towers at the top of it. the blaze has already claimed lives. two firefighters died when their vehicle plunged down a mountainside. >> and please prayers for their families of our two br

loaded with children. diane schuller drove nearly two miles the wrong way on a major road before slamming head-on into an suv last week. schuller and four, young girls, ages 2 to 9, were killed, as were three men in the other vehicle. yesterday, police said schuller had been smoking marijuana and drinking vodka. >> diane schuller had a blood alcohol content of 0.19%. the legal limit for intoxication in new york state, is 0.8%. >> around that level of alcohol, you also get tunnel vision, where your perception is changed. so, you can't see peripherally all the time, depending on her tolerance she has to alcohol, as well. >> i mean, come on. blaming signs and blaming this. it didn't make sense from the beginning. you know? something caused her to do that. you know? so, now, we know. i think anyone that knows, contributing to this, should be brought to justice. in one way or another. >> the incident has been ruled a homicide. a local district attorney will decide whether anyone who would have known schuller was impaired should be prosecuted. >>> michael jackson's father, joe jackson, says he

products. diane joine 100 consumer at has could help g.m. design its product of the future. >>eporter: they came from bost, seattle, and parts in between.... >> this is sweet. everyone should ha one of these. >> reporter: . to get behind the wheel of general motors hottest products. >> how areou today, sir? >> reporter: ts week, at-m's expense, 100onsumers from around the u.s. came to e company's st track near detroit to bn a little rubber, eck out vehicle interiors i like that. >> reporte and give ceo fritz henderson an earfuabout what they wt and don't want in a car or truck. >> if i want a camero don't want a four door. >> we'll sell you a came. ere's one right there. >> it doesn'have 4 doors. >> reporter: henders says this firsof-its kind eve for the auto maker refles how the new g-m is doing business. he thinks the company n sell mo vehicles by listening more carefully to amerin consumers and king them tough questions. >> how do we appeal tohe buyers beten 16 and 30? historical, this was an area that ptiac was focused on and we certainly belve that what we havcoming into the ev

: a husband's emotional character reference. authorities said diane schuler was stoned and had twice the amount of alcohol. recovered from schuler's van a brok broken bottle of vodka. schuler believes a medical condition may have caused the accident. >> any good addict over time becomes better and better in hiding. >> reporter: for so many years, diane a successful insurance agent with a thriving social life, held her alcoholism from those she loved the most. no one in her family knew until she got help from an addiction expert. >> is it shameful for yourself to consider yourself an alcohol zblig yes, i think it is. >> reporter: statistics reveal that women are increasingly driving turned influence. while the number of men arrested was 7% lower. for those loved one killed in that accident, there are still painful questions. >> i go to bed, know she didn't drink. >> reporter: for many alcoholics hiding is what they do. diana says, no more hiding. >> how does it feel? >> it's hope that i'm going to take the steps. it's one big step. and then maybe tiny steps. and i'm going to be health

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on this story. good morning. >> good morning. police say before the wreck, 36-year-old diane schuler was both drunk and high. but her husband refuses to believe that. insisting something else caused the accident. was 36-year-old mother diane schuler hiding a secret addiction? >> gi to bed every night knowing. my heart is clear. >> reporter: daniel schuler says no way. he insists his wife was stone cold sober before she drove on new york's taconic parkway in the wrong direction. >> she's not an alcoholic. something medically had to have happened. >> reporter: toxicology results tell another story. >> diane schuler had a blood alcohol content of .19%. the legal limit for intoxication in new york state is .08%. >> reporter: that's the equivalent of ten shots of vodka. >> around that level of alcohol you also start to get what's called tunnel vision where your perception is changed. >> reporter: police discovered a broken absolut bottle in your mini van and test results showed she was high, too, after apparently mixing booze and marijuana. >> this is not a woman who would jeopardize five children

a switch over the weekend, diane. for ten weeks we had a hurricane season with no hurricanes then suddenly in 30 hours we had three named storms. overnight here in the florida panhandle tropical storm claudette came ashore with winds of 50 miles an hour and rain, a lot of rain. 6 inches or more. came with little warning. claudette is a classic pop-up storm suddenly appearing out of nowhere in the gulf of mexico and here it is 18 hours later making landfall. >> i think claudette in the end is a warning shot. the gulf is more prime than usual for intensification. >> reporter: which is why claudette surprised many here. >> looking at my boat trying to do what i have to do to save it. >> reporter: what was the first named storm of the season, ana, is already falling apart. overnight ana was downgraded to a tropical depression. just behind is bill. overnight it became the first hurricane to form this season. the good news, the computer forecast models show bill staying out at sea. the sudden explosion of activity has knocked complacency out of some. they concluded maybe this season they didn't

the gang here to preview this july jobs report. our chief economist today, diane swank, mark zandi and bob barbera of itg. deep with us from deep in the maine woods, steve liesman, stuart hoffman, chief economist at pnc and chief dunkleberg. guys, let's try and go around the horn and get everybody's opinion in on this. diane, we'll start things off with you. i know you're a little more pessimistic than the consensus. >> i am, although i think we'll recoop in august. i'm looking for a 400,000 decline in jobs. i think we're not out the woods on the jobs number but we'll be getting better in summer with the pick up in car manufacturing. this is a still a tough time. i would be delighted to be wrong this month. >> bob, what do you think? >> i'm down 275, 290, something like that. i think diane's point about picking up in august, the seasonals are tough in the auto industry and how it will effect the number but i think we all agree that it will improve in the months ahead and i'm hoping we'll see improvement. >> mark, what about your number? >> i think 300,000. i think that's a reasonable numbe

. that deadly wrong-way crash. eight people died when a 36-year-old mother, diane schuler, her minivan filled with children drove nearly two miles on a busy parkway before slamming into an suv. police say she was both drunk and high but her husband does not believe it. this morning family members of two of the victim inside the suv are speaking out. they say those claims that alcohol and drugs were not responsible only make things worse. an exclusive interview with them coming up in just a couple of minutes. >>> then also kate gosselin on life since her marriage to jon ended. how is she holding up? how are the kids handling things and what does her future hold? she's with us to talk about it all in just a bit. >>> we begin with the latest on that traj igs collision between a small plane and a helicopter over the hudson river in new york. nbc's jeff rossen is at the scene. jeff, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, matt. just to give you an idea how violent this impact was, the airplane and the helicopter landed in different sections of the hudson. this weekend police divers found the chop

, alongside chris cuomo, i'm robin roberts diane sawyer is off on this wednesday, august 12th. president obama becoming a sort of fact-checker in chief. >> he hasn't seen the ugly scenes we've seen elsewhere, he's the president after all. but look at los angeles this morn, people lining up for free health care. >> so let's begin with our senior white house correspondent jake tapper with the latest on the owing battle over reform. good morning, jake. >> reporter: good morning, robin. the debate over health care reform dominated by the president's opponents but he's seeking to regain moment ul and in doing so, has raised the stakes in this furious fight. >> you and your cronies in the government -- >> reporter: summer recess no day at the beach for many members of congress. democrats continue to encounter angry crowds at health care town halls. a second volatile town hall meeting for pennsylvania democratic senator arlen specter. >> you have awakened the sleeping giant. we're tired of this. this is why everybody in this room is so ticked off. >> reporter: extra police were brought in but did dmo

what you're hearing now. >> reporter: we hear the plane, diane, which is on the other side of the door behind me. it's unclear, if they're going to disembark fully outside. or if they will come and use the staircase here that says welcome home. we'll have to wait a few minutes to see. you talk about the family and friends. what a day this must be for them. you can only imagine the emotions here. 140 days they've gone without seeing these 2 women. and the families are gathered in a back room. they're waiting for the plane to come into this area, we believe. or for the family to come into this area. and we hope to hear from them. it will be interesting to hear how the women talk about how they were treated. we haven't heard very much about their daily life when they were in north korea. we haven't heard much about the politics from their point of view, whether they felt like political pawns in all of this. so, i suspect we may hear some of that this morning. i also suspect we'll hear a lot of gratitude and thanks for what's been accomplished for them. >> yes, kate. everyone involved, inc

for by abc, inc. >>> and we hope it's a great morning for all of you. i'm diane sawyer with chris cuomo on this monday, august 17th, 2009. robin is away today. here it is, claudette. >> this is the first tropical storm of the season. some big numbers here. 50-mile-an-hour winds, 6 inches in rain. the big question for us now, where does it go? >> some areas could get as much as 10 inches of rain. as we project it will go up into alabama and georgia later today. >> bill, of course, that is the first hurricane of the season. we'll tell you everything we know about that in a moment. first we have questions about claudette. >> that's right. it's as we said claudette is slamming ashore panama city and we have right there spending the night in the drenching winds jeffrey kofman himself. how was it last night, jeffrey? >> reporter: it was wet and it was windy but right now it's actually not. you know, about half an hour ago if you had seen me it would have been a lot more dramatic and expect to see more heavy rain and winds coming as the tail end of claudette makes its way ashore but we're betw

finished alive and dumped into the water to diane awful death. you can help change that. do, stand by the shore and be aed by the great pewer of these living aqua scapes. they are a life force as surely as we are. it is a sacred relationship that deserves our vigilance. >> beautiful pictures. that is all for this week. thank you for joining us and have a great weekend.

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